Insecta - Blattodea - Rhinotermitidae
Full reference: C. Jouault and A. Nel. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Revising dating estimates and the antiquity of eusociality in termites using the fossilized birth-death process. Systematic Entomology 46:592-610
Belongs to Reticulitermes according to C. Jouault and A. Nel 2021
Sister taxa: Hemerobites, Reticulitermes antiquus, Reticulitermes creedei, Reticulitermes dofleini, Reticulitermes fossarum, Reticulitermes hartungi, Reticulitermes holmgreni, Reticulitermes laurae, Reticulitermes minimus, Reticulitermes pliozaenicus, Reticulitermes tibialis
Type specimen: IGR.BA-020, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (IGR Rennes collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (IGR Rennes collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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